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Supreme Court Restores Plea In Gauhati HC Which Challenges Sub-classification Of STs As Mizos & Non-Mizos In Mizoram
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court Restores Plea In Gauhati HC Which Challenges Sub-classification Of STs As Mizos & Non-Mizos In Mizoram

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside an order of the Gauhati High Court which dismissed a petition challenging the sub-classification within the Scheduled Tribes in Mizoram. The bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra was hearing a petition filed by the Mizoram Chakma Students. The bench comprising Chief Justice of India …

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Supreme Court agrees to hear plea against Mizoram notification ‘discriminatory’ to non-Mizo tribes
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea against Mizoram notification ‘discriminatory’ to non-Mizo tribes

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on July 17 agreed to hear a petition seeking to quash a government notification that discriminates against non-Mizo Scheduled Tribes of Mizoram, which has one of the best literacy percentages in the country, in reservation to higher technical courses. The students’ union, represented by senior advocate Aditya Sondhi and advocate Vikram Hegde, said the notification arbitrarily sub-classified …

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Ideological Differences Don’t Matter: Congress and BJP Join Hands In Tripura Panchayat Board
1 year, 6 months ago

Ideological Differences Don’t Matter: Congress and BJP Join Hands In Tripura Panchayat Board

ABP News  

At a time when Congress and other Opposition parties are trying to form an-anti BJP alliance in the country, the BJP and the Congress, with the support of a CPI member, have formed the panchayat board in Tripura’s Srinathpur in the Unakoti district. Amid this rising anger of Mizos, state vice-president of BJP R Vanramchhuanga resigned from his post last …

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Mizoram’s predicament over Myanmar refugees
2 years, 3 months ago

Mizoram’s predicament over Myanmar refugees

Live Mint  

On the narrow streets of Aizawl, one can barely recognise celebrity singer Benjamin Sum, known to his fans just as Sum. “To feed 30,000 people for months… it’s quite a problem for the government of Mizoram and the people at large,” Zoramthanga had noted. “We don’t look at Myanmarese as refugees but displaced people,” says Mizoram University’s Prof. Lalnuntluanga, general …

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36 years of Mizoram Accord: A historic move that ended two decades of Mizo insurgency
2 years, 6 months ago

36 years of Mizoram Accord: A historic move that ended two decades of Mizo insurgency

Firstpost  

This has been termed as the only successful accord in India, with observers referring to it as ‘the only insurgency in the world which ended with a stroke of pen’ The historic Mizoram Accord completed 36 years on 30 June 2022. Signed between the Mizo National Front and New Delhi in 1986, the Accord has been termed as the only …

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Assam-Mizoram conflict | Reopening old wounds along the border
3 years, 5 months ago

Assam-Mizoram conflict | Reopening old wounds along the border

The Hindu  

A month before the Assam-Mizoram border conflict on July 26 claimed the lives of six Assam police personnel, Lalchhandama was in Champhai town near the Myanmar border when his farm shed and areca nut plantation, 320-km north at Aitlang, were destroyed. “Mizoram police accompanied by IR Battalion of more than 30 armed personnel entered Inner Line Reserve Forest and constructed …

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Why seven people died in clash between two northeast India states
3 years, 5 months ago

Why seven people died in clash between two northeast India states

Al Jazeera  

Rare clash last week over longstanding border dispute between Assam and Mizoram leaves six police officers and a civilian dead. Likewise, the Assam police registered cases against a Mizoram politician for his “threatening comments” and six other police officers who allegedly fired at their Assamese counterparts. In 2018, about 50 people from Mizoram were attacked by Assam police after some …

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Tension grips Assam-Mizoram border, security tightened in both areas
3 years, 5 months ago

Tension grips Assam-Mizoram border, security tightened in both areas

India Today  

Tension gripped the Assam-Mizoram border village of Gutguti following the construction of a temporary shed of police camp by the Mizoram police personnel, the Assam officials said. 'Our forces are ready to strike at any time if Assam side makes any further encroachment on Mizoram's territory,' Khiangte, currently camping at Vairengte, said. "It is Assam, which encroached on the Mizoram …

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The Mizos and Myanmarese share deep cultural bonds that go beyond the citizen-refugee divide
3 years, 8 months ago

The Mizos and Myanmarese share deep cultural bonds that go beyond the citizen-refugee divide

The Hindu  

Salai Uk Thang, 31, a policeman from Myanmar’s Sagaing Division, knew his arrest was imminent. Thousands of Myanmarese like Thang, mostly from Myanmar’s Chin State, the Sagaing Region, and other neighbouring provinces, have trooped into Mizoram since February, an influx that once again raises questions about identity and borders, refugees and relatives, friends and foes. The Mizos have long believed …

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An Indian state's harmonious approach to life
4 years ago

An Indian state's harmonious approach to life

BBC  

An Indian state's harmonious approach to life Wildlife/Alamy Aizawl is India's only "honk-free" city, where people follow traffic rules and don't blare their horns In Mizoram in north-east India, harmony and sustainability of society – rather than economic wealth – are the most valued objectives in life. "It’s hard to trace the beginnings of tlawmngaihna," said Naulak, "But it’s been …

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Mizoram Refutes Reports of Withdrawing Forces from Assam as Border Situation Remains Grim
4 years, 2 months ago

Mizoram Refutes Reports of Withdrawing Forces from Assam as Border Situation Remains Grim

News 18  

While the Centre continues its effort to curb down on the escalating tension at the Assam-Mizoram border, Mizoram CM Zoramthanga on Thursday expressed his displeasure over reports of withdrawing forces from the border and claimed the widely circulated report as ‘misinformation’. A meeting convened on Tuesday at Silchar DC’s conference hall along with the SPs and DCs of Cachar, Karimganj …

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Video of Bihar villagers rushing to give food to Mizoram migrants on Shramik Express restores faith in humanity
4 years, 7 months ago

Video of Bihar villagers rushing to give food to Mizoram migrants on Shramik Express restores faith in humanity

Op India  

On Saturday, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthang took to Twitter to share a heart-warming video of a large number of locals in Bihar coming to the rescue of the stranded Mizos by offering them food. Few days after stranded Mizos offers their food to flood-affected victims on their way back, a brief halt of their #ShramikSpecialTrain at #Begusarai Bihar witnessed good …

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India’s little-known Mizo tribal cuisine
4 years, 10 months ago

India’s little-known Mizo tribal cuisine

BBC  

India’s little-known Mizo tribal cuisine Pearly Jacob Mizo meals feature staples like smoked pork boiled with mustard leaves and bai In a corner of India where curry remains an alien dish, stews made with wild edible plants and herbs still dominate the two main meals of the day. Pearly Jacob Mizo meals feature staples like smoked pork boiled with mustard …

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Linguistic, religious, cultural identities to rise
6 years ago

Linguistic, religious, cultural identities to rise

Deccan Chronicle  

K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Telangana state Chief Minister for the second time, is one of the few actors on the political stage to have remained loyal to Indira Gandhi in her darkest hour. Rajiv Gandhi’s triumph in Karnataka’s 1984 Lok Sabha elections didn’t stop Ramakrishna Hegde and the Janata Party sweeping the Assembly polls only three months later. The three Hindi-speaking …

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Ground Zero | The changing dynamic between minority Brus and dominant Mizos in Mizoram
6 years, 1 month ago

Ground Zero | The changing dynamic between minority Brus and dominant Mizos in Mizoram

The Hindu  

Lalvungthanga, 67, misses being Nanda Kumar Reang. Fear of ‘outsiders’ In the recent Assembly election, Bru refugees came to Mizoram to vote, unlike in the past when polling officials from Mizoram went to relief camps in Tripura to conduct the elections. Mizo organisations reacted by demanding that the Brus be left out of the State’s electoral rolls as they “are …

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Mizoram polls: Mizos' demand that Chakma candidates be denied tickets gets ignored by Congress, BJP
6 years, 2 months ago

Mizoram polls: Mizos' demand that Chakma candidates be denied tickets gets ignored by Congress, BJP

Firstpost  

Aizawl: The Chakmas have been in Mizoram for a long time now. After consultation with prominent citizens and retired bureaucrats, and examining Parliament and Assembly records, we will try and prove that some illegalities were involved in the creation of the CADC.” The demand for an NRC stems from rising concerns among Mizo groups that the rapid growth of population …

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